Court of Appeal Sets Aside Financial Remedy Order
The Court of Appeal has upheld a man’s argument that the financial remedy order made on his divorce should have been set aside because the wife had given inaccurate evidence...
Continue readingWith the recent furore over the Government’s proposed increase in the cost of obtaining probate on larger estates, currently on ice owing to lack of parliamentary time in the run...
Continue readingDisputes about the validity of wills frequently centre on allegations that the deceased lacked ‘mental capacity’ when they created a will. In a recent case, the court had to...
Continue readingWhere there is money, there is opportunity for wrongdoing and a steady stream of cases show that vigilance is needed to prevent the assets of the deceased or elderly being...
Continue readingWill disputes can be extremely bitter and the kind of skulduggery depicted in fiction sadly sometimes reflects reality. In one case, the High Court found that a well-respected accountant had...
Continue readingThe Government has acknowledged that the upcoming general election makes it unlikely that probate fees will increase significantly in May as planned, as there will not be time for Parliament...
Continue readingThe latest research from National Savings and Investments shows that a staggering 64 per cent of adults in the UK have not made a will, and that 38 million adults...
Continue readingA recent case shows the importance of involving a solicitor in the preparation of a will, especially where it is considered that an attempt to invalidate it on the grounds...
Continue readingProbate fees, which rose sharply only three years ago, are about to rise again. Under the present scheme an application for probate by an individual costs £215 and by...
Continue readingA surprising Court of Appeal decision that a daughter was a ‘dependant’ of her estranged mother and thus entitled to benefit from her estate has now been overturned by the...
Continue readingWhen an elderly man died owning both a house and a half share in an attached property with his sister, whose financial affairs were already being administered by a cousin...
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